Celebrate Yourself with the Celebrating Womanhood #selflovechallenge

Celebrating Womanhood #selflovechallenge

Hosted by Living, Learning, and Loving LifeCabin Goddess, Tea with Dee, Living This Moment, and Teachable Scotts Tots Homeschool.

For one day, we want to drown out negativity and celebrate the beauty and pride of women.

These days it seems that some people want us to be ashamed of being women. They want us to believe that we’re less: less intelligent, less important, less human. There is so much negativity out there. For one day, we want to flood the internet with positive messages about women.

Join the #selflovechallenge, and share three positive things about yourself. If you don’t have a blog, share on Facebook, Twitter, a favorite email loop (as long as they don’t mind off-topic messages), or just write it on a Post-it note and put it on your bathroom mirror. You can also share on our Facebook page. (There are only a couple of “rules”. You can pop over to the announcement post to see those.) Continue reading

Kid Quotes (9/8)

The boys were arguing about whether Blake had told Jack something. Since I heard Blake tell him, Jack lost this round.
B: Jack, you have horrible memories!
I…don’t think that’s what he meant to say….

Blake’s playing a game and yells, “I have the power!” à la He-Man.
Suddenly, I don’t know what year it is.

B: There’s always one embarrassing moment in your life.

B: Did you know the less you complain in quicksand, the slower it will go?

Blake wanted to snuggle as he falls asleep and I told him I wasn’t ready to snuggle yet. (He doesn’t always sleep with me, and I had already started my study time when he climbed into my bed.)
B: Why do you have to have Bible time, anyway?
Me: Because it’s important that we learn and keep reminding ourselves what the Bible says.
B: Well, snuggling is important to me.
(He got his snuggle time, of course.)

Book Review: Wildflowers from Winter by Katie Ganshert

Wildflowers from Winter About the book
Title: Wildflowers from Winter
Author: Katie Ganshert
Publisher: WaterBrook Multnomah
Release date: May 8, 2012
Pages: 293
Where I got the book: Free from Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review

 

Summary
Like the winter, grief has a season. Life returns with the spring.

A young architect at a prestigious Chicago firm, Bethany Quinn has built the life she dreamed of during her teen years in a trailer park. An unexpected interruption from her estranged mother reveals that tragedy has struck in her hometown and a reluctant Bethany is called back to rural Iowa.

Determined to pay her respects to her past while avoiding any emotional entanglements, she vows not to stay long. But the unexpected inheritance of five hundred acres of farmland and a startling turn of events in Chicago forces Bethany to come up with a new plan.

Handsome farmhand Evan Price has taken care of the Quinn farm for years. When Bethany is left the land, Evan must fight her decisions to realize his dreams. But even as he disagrees with Bethany’s vision, Evan feels drawn to her and the pain she keeps so carefully locked away.

For Bethany, making peace with her past and the God of her childhood doesn’t seem like the path to freedom. Is letting go the only way to new life, love and a peace that she’s not even sure exists? Continue reading